Pressed for Sound
New Album Reviews: June 2008 Archives
The Notwist return with its first album since 2002's Neon Golden, and even include a song or two that could have easily been ripped from that disc. Fans expecting a progression will be treated to a new set of songs that live entirely on their own, while reminding you of that classic record.
Continue reading Album Review: The Notwist - 'The Devil, You + Me'.
Here, It Never Snowed, Afterwards It Did is a "re-working" of tracks from the band's amazing 2007 debut, Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
-- plus a few new cuts. This time around, the Glaswegian quartet
strip-down the layers of distortion and overlapping delays to add space
via droning experimentation, and the use of classical instruments.
Is it good enough that a band like My Morning Jacket
has released several magnificent full-lengths, built a reputation as
the premier live rock band in the biz and still drop an average album
-- which will definitely bother purists? Yes.
Continue reading Album Review: My Morning Jacket - 'Evil Urges'.
After a five-year absence, Jason Pierce was hospitalized with double pneumonia for long period of time, our favorite spaceman comes down to Earth with an album of mellow, clean-rock.
Continue reading Album Review: Spiritualized - 'Songs in A & E'.